Bug 68240 – 2.6.9-gentoo kernel "hangs" for about 30 seconds during boot

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-10-20 00:08:47 UTC]

I just updated from 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 to 2.6.9-gentoo and noticed that the kernel hangs for about 30 seconds during ide device discovery.

I attached my .config and dmesg output (in which I marked the position where it hangs)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Kernel hangs for 30 seconds.

Expected Results:  
Kernel did not do that before.

Portage 2.0.51_rc10 (default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6, gcc-3.4.2,
glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo i686)
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System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mno-sse2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mno-sse2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups dvd dvdr eds
encode esd evo f77 fam flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal
howl imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg
svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-10-20 00:09:08 UTC]

Created attachment 42235 [details]
.config

[Comment 2 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-10-20 00:09:40 UTC]

Created attachment 42236 [details]
dmesg

I marked the position where the kernel hangs with a *** ... *** line.

[Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-10-20 15:30:10 UTC]

Could you please see if this issue exists in development-sources-2.6.9?

[Comment 4 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-10-20 23:42:41 UTC]

Yes, the vanilla 2.6.9 kernel has the same problem.

[Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-10-21 13:00:28 UTC]

Then it appears to be an upstream issue, as opposed to something wrong with our patchset. Could you please open a bug for this at http://bugzilla.kernel.org ?
Thanks. If you get a solution, let me know, and I'll consider patching gentoo-dev-sources

[Comment 6 Sebastian Bergmann (RETIRED) 2004-10-22 00:38:50 UTC]

Upstream bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3615